The rearrest of the fugitive was done by operatives attached to the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) of the Command.
The Niger State Police Command says it has arrested one John Ijamu, a 42-year-old fugitive who fled from Kuje Custodial Centre during a terrorist attack on the facility.
The command in a statement issued on Monday, by its spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, said Ijamu who hails from Apa Local Government Area of Benue State but resides along Mandela Road, Minna, was rearrested on July 31 at about 7 am following a tip-off.
Abiodun said the rearrest of the fugitive was done by operatives attached to the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) of the Command.
The PPRO disclosed that Ijamu had confessed that he escaped from the custodial facility during the attack along with other inmates, stressing that he went to the Lapai area of the state and stayed in a mosque for about two weeks before he arrived Minna on July 28.
According to Abiodun, the suspect said he was arrested in Abuja in 2020 for engaging in “criminal conspiracy, armed robbery and receiving stolen property”.
He was subsequently remanded in Kuje prison.
The spokesperson said the Commissioner of Police in Niger State, CP Monday Bala Kuryas, has directed that the inmate should be immediately transferred to the custodial centre.
SaharaReporters had reported that ISWAP terrorists claimed for an attack on the prison facility on July 5, in which hundreds of inmates including terror suspects were released.